“I just want to be 100 percent certain where I’ll play next season before I say anything official. But that will happen over the next few days,” Olic told Sport Bild.

The paper reports that Olic would earn 2.5 million euros a year at Stoke, having been offered a one-year deal plus an option for an extra year.

In recent weeks, Olic has dropped down the pecking order at Wolfsburg and has often had to make way for in-form attacker Bas Dost.

Struggling for first-team football, he opted to meet with Stoke manager Mark Hughes in Berlin a couple of weeks ago to discuss a potential move to the Potters.

“When I went for talks I said to Hughes: 'I'll get a sore neck from your long balls. Who's going to chase them all up?’” Olic told Sportske Novosti.

“He [Hughes] said: 'We don't play like that anymore, we want to play European-style football.' But I haven't decided yet. I'd like to 'taste' Anfield and Old Trafford. Wolfsburg people are insisting I should stay and I'm not excluding that option.”

Sport Bild also mentions a third possible destination for Olic, with former club Hamburg apparently interested.

The Bundesliga outfit are currently involved in a relegation battle, however, and Olic has no plans to end his career in Germany’s second tier.